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WWW JRlfiffijili WEN Splendid Record Being Made, By Railways This Year. A despatch from London says: Friday has been a day of uneasi- ness and even alarm. Various re- ports, all seeming to harmonize with each other, created a belief that the Balkan trouble had come to a head, and that war was very near. The general interpretation cf the withdrawal of Marquis Pal- lavicinni, the Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople, as a disguised ultimatum to Turkey, Russia's un- favorable reply to the Austrian note concerning a conference, the re- rlmrted deEnite conclusion of an ar. iance between Turkey, Montene- gro and Servia, the alleged clash of an Austrian column with a Ser- vian guerilla band, the rumored in- crease of troops in Bosnia, and a fresh coneernation at Semin, oppm site Belgrade, where it was assert- ed a. plot to murder an Austrian Minister had been discovered, were the principal Causes of the excite, merit. These, added to the univer- lal exasperation caused by the Tur- A despatch from Winnipeg says: Up to date there has passed inspec- tion at Winnipeg 40,400,000 bush- els of wheat of the crop of 1903, or nearly 9,000,000 bushels more than had been inspected up to the end of December last year. Putting the exportable surplus of crop at 80,- 000,000 bushels, more than half of that surplus has already been in- spected, and before navigation clos- es on the 5th of December the amount will have run over 45,000,: 000 bushels. In spite of the kicks that continue to come from the country as to car shortage, the west has already got out more wheat, considering the distance it has to travel, than any country has ever moved in the same period ‘before. IT B VERY MWEQHS MA Italian Laborer Thrusts Knife Into His Breast. A despatch from Niagara. Falls says: Following a dispute over wages, Joe Fread, an Italian la, borer, committed a murderous as- Fault on W. H. Morton at Stam- ford on Thursday afternoon. Morn ton is foreman of a gang of labor- ers who work on the roads in. 9w”? lord township, and wm paying the me-. «ion the conclusion of the job. Freed demanded more than had been agreed upon, and Morton re- fused to pay him. Freed walked 'away, but in a few minutes came back, and, without warning, stab.. bed Morton twice in the breast near the heart with a dirk knife, and ran " into the woods. The poll, " ter a long chase, captured him. Morton is in a very critical condi- tion. Up to the end of September the even-age price to the farmer had run just about 85 cents per bushel for all grades. The average has not been made up since that time, but it has certainly been higher, Pref. Parker, of Manitoba, University, Says It Is Worse Than Dynamite. WAR IN BALKANS Jllllilliiw? Such was the startling statement of Professor Parker of Manitoba University, on Thursday, on the completion of tests of samples of oil obtained from the same source as that which resulted in fifteen deaths within a fortnight in the Province. "This oil," said Professor Park- er, “is extraordinary in some re- spects. I do not think that; it was adulterated with gasoline, as has Five Children Stricken __ Thought it Was Chicken-pox. A despatch from Brockville says: In tle, village of Lyn, five miles frmri isfoclrville, five cases of small- on were diagnosed on Wednesday y Brockville’s Medical Health Of- ficer. The patients were children in four different houses, some of whom had almost recovered, while cthers were in the worst stages. It was generally' believed that the children were suffering from chick- en~pox, therefore no precautionary measures were taken, The Trouble Is Now Believed to Have _ Come to a Heed. A despatch from Winnipeg says: "That oil, poured on a living fire, would be more dangerous than dy- namite or nitro-‘glycerine used si- milarly." SMALLPOX NEAR BROCKVILLE W. IL. REQRTON STABRED. The Canadian Pacihe holds the palm for the largest number of cars mover on such long hauls in the period of two and a half months, and evidence of the advantage of double tracking is fairly thrust in the Gee of every dealer of wheat. The record of the G. T. P. for a new load is magnificent, for it must be remembered that not a car mov- ed on that road in September. The record of nearly a thousand cars is for October and November alone. rather than lower. Taking the av- erage of wheat passed inspection at 85 cents to the farmer, there has been paid to them on the wheat crop' of 1908, $34,340,000. It is in- teresting to note the record of the venous roads, in the movement of the crop. Of the 43,973 cars inspec- ted the C. P. R. handled 27,845, the C. N. R. 12,821, and the new G. T. P. made the splendid record of 924, and 2,383 went over the Great Northern to Duluth. __ __ _ It is impossible to say how far the day's alarm was justified, but nothing can be definitely ascertain- ed to show that the situation is really worse than it has been for the last few days. Nevertheless the uneasiness is general, and the oue- look is very obscure. It is stated in diplomatic quarters that the gravest difficulties lie in the diretr tion of an Austrian-Russian dis- agreement, and the probability of an alliance between Turkey, Mon- tenegro\and Servia. During October 500 cases of ty- phgid were repprtedfo the Provin- kish boycott caused declines at the bourses of Vienna. and Budapest, which were partly checked by a hasty official announcement deny- ing some of the rumors, especially the fight between Austrians and Sherv;ans. T been suggested, I tried it for spe- cific gravity, for flash point, and l distilled it fractionallly. I believe that it contained a heavy percent- age of naphtha, of low grade per- baps. Gasoline would distill off be- low 90 degrees, or even 70 degrees, and only 2 or3 per cent. of this oil distilled off below 90 degrees. The portion of 47 per cent. distilled at between 90 and 130 degrees. There- fore I think it contained, not gaso- line, but naphtha. The, flash point was below what my machine will register. Investigation shows that the company charged with whole-. saleing this oil hasbpen importing naphtha largely." - ' N Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic in Several Distrie0s. A despatch from Berlin says: The foot and mouth disease is epidemic in several of the cattle districts of Germany. _ - -' Passed Away at Gore Bay, Mani- _ .toulin Island. A despatch from Gore Bay, Mani- toulin, says: Judge Archibald Mac- Callum, formerly a Toronto newfr. paper man and a prominent politi- cal worker, died here on Thursday of pneumonia. Judge MacCallum leaves a widow and a family of young children. Two prisoners named Brooks and Mallory escaped from Lindsay jail on, Saturday. 7 Eial Board of-Health. The position was in no wise bet- tered when it was learned that the Government had confiscated four Vienna. newspapers for reporting the movements of troops particular- ly at Semlin. - Brantford Man Caught by Train on Bridge Took Chances. . A despatch from Brantford says: George Hanscombe, in crossing the trestle bridge over the canal on Thursday morning, was caught by the, T., ff. and B gravel train. Ra- ther than be run down he plunged into the canal, from which he was later rescued without injury. GERMAN CATTLE AFFECTED . JUD GE MACCALLUM DEAD. I 5ucPED INTO CANAL. Lambs, $0.2. [$4.00 to $4 1 to $3.30. /Torouto, Dec. 1.-A)ntario Wheat - No. 2 white or red, outside, 93c tof/le;. No. , mixed, 93c to 9340. lin)lllil0 MARKETS Flour-Manitoba, first patents, $5.80; seconds, $5.30; strong bak- ers', $5.10; Ontario winter wheat patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75, cutside. MilHeed--Bran, $20 to $21 per ton in bags, outside; shorts, $22 to $23, in bags, outside. Corn-Old, 74'At, to 75e, Toronto heights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow; new No. 3 yellow, 710 to 71Ac, Toronto freights. Rye-No. 2, 750 to 760, outside. Peas-No. 2, 850 to 860 outside. 2ykwheat--Nos 2, 550 to 560, out- 81 0. 54c. Apples-Winter, $3 to $4 per bar- rel for good qualities, and at $2 to_$2.50 f_or, cooking apples. - Beans-prime, $1.50 tiftl.85, and hand-picked, $1.90 to $1.95 per bushel. Egsis--t)lse lots ofjitrscago,--2tta, Me per dozen, while new laid are qugted at y) to 32p per doz_e_n. Honey-Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to Ile per poynd. _ Bay-No, 1 timothy quoted at $11 to $11.50 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $7 to $8. Straw-im) to $8 on track. Potatoes-Delaware:', 75 to 800 pe_r bag on track. -- Poultry-Chickens, dressed, 9 to 100 per pound; fowl, 7 to 80; ducks, 9 to loc; geese, 8 to 90 per pound; turkeys, 12 to 12yie per pound. Butter-Pound prints, 24 to Mc; tubs, 23 to 240; inferior, 20 to 21c. Creamery rolls, 27% to 28c, and sol'ds, 25% to 26e. _ __ Cheese-Large che-ese, 13yio per pound, and twins, 133/40. A Lard-tdress, 12%0; tubs, 12%0; pails, _130_. _ - ~._ - -- - PROVISIONS. Pork-Short cut, $22.50 to $23 pe_r byrtl; mess, $19 to $19.50:_ Smoked and Dry Sélted Meats-. Long clear bacon, 11)de to 11)dp, tons and (331:0? ', Emma, Harge 12Ae 'w Lou, small 140 to 14%0; backs, 17e to 17%c; shoulders, 100 to 10)ie; rolls, Ile to 11%0; breakfast bacon, 15e to 160 ; green meats out of pickle lc less than smoked. Montreal, Bee. 1.-kthain--Cana, dian Western No. 2 white oats are selling at 46%0; No. 3, 45%c; extra No. 1 feed oats at 45%(2; No. 1 feed at 45e; Ontario No. 2 white, 45 to 451Ats; No, 3, 44 to 44%0; No. 4, 43% to 44c per bushel ex store. Flour-Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $6; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25; straight rollers, $4.60 to $4.70; do., in bags, $2.15 to 82.25; extra, $1.- 75 to $1.85. Feed-Ontario bran, $21.50 to $22; middlings, $25 to $26; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouille, $30 to $32; milled grades, $25 to $28 per ton. Cheese-Wd to 12%0, and easterns at 11% to IM. Butter --2he in round lots, and 27% to 28e in a jabbing way. Eggs-New laid, 29 to 300 ; selected stock, 25 to 25%0; No. 1 stock, 22 to 23c, and No. 2 stock, 17%0 per dozen. Toronto, Dee. 1.-A scarcity of choice cattle was reported. A buyer said-that he was willing to pay $5 for a load of extra choice butchers' cattle, but he could not End them. The best prices ruled around $4.40 per cwt. Straight loads of good cattle were sold at $4 to $4.25 per cwt. .The prices of medium cattle varied from $3 to $4 per cwt. Choice cows were sold up to $3.75 per cwt. Common and medium cows brought $2 to $3 per owt. Few heavy feeders of good quality were offered. A demand from the country persisted for them at current prices. Sheep and lambs were in better demand. Select hogs continued to sell at $6.25 per cwt., fed and watered, Toronto. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Dec. 1--Mheat--No.1 Northern, $1.06%; No. 2 Northern, $1.04 to $1.05; May, $1.08 asked. liye--No. 1, 75c. Corn-May, 62Ae bid. Barley-Standard, 64e; sam- ples, 57 to 64c; No: 3, 57 to 61e; Nov., 570. . Minneapolis, Dec. 1.-jheat - Dec., $1.04%; May, 31.09%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.08% to 31.08%; No. 1 Northern, 31.07% to $1.07%; No. 2 Northern, $1.05V2 to 81.055(; No. 4 Northern, $1.01.1A to $1.04. Bran ---818.25 to $18.50. Flour - First patents, $5.40 to S5.65; second pa- tents, $5.23 to 3350; first clears, $4.00 to $4,150, mood clears, $3 00 1 Northern, 2 Northern, 4 Northern, ---818.25 to patents, $5. tents, $5.23 Buffalo. steady; N store, $1 f. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. THE DAIRY MARKETS LIVE STOCK MARKET. COUNTRY PRODUCE. BREADSTUFFS. 1 s-----)'--?.)),',, Inrrhern. carioadé; hater. hlgher; No. ; No. ; No. Bran First k I Jessie Wilkinson, said to be an expert forger, was arrested at Win- lnigeg on Saturday. - l Police Magistrate Moore of Ee- I poerperbeen suspended by the Qtrirérnment. _ 2 red, $1.08%; No. 3 extra red, $1.07%; No. 2 white,, $1.04; No. 2 mixed, $1.07. Corn-Easier; No. 3 yellow, 6hr, No. 4 yellow, 66Ac; No. 4 corn, 65%0 to 66c; No. 3 white, 670. C)atss-Steady; No. 2 white, 53)d to 53%0; No. 2 rye, track, 810. TWO TRAIN HANDS INJURED. An Eastbound Freight Crashes into Another at Siding. A despatch from Peterboro says: As a result of a collision between two freight trains at Bethany, about 12 miles west of here, at 7 o'cloek on Monday night, two of the engine crew of one train were se- verely injured, seven cars were piled up, an engine was badly dam- aged, and the line was effectively blocked to traffic. The injured men are Engineer Kirby, of West Toron- to, badly cut about the head, and Brakeman Ervin, also of West To- i~onto, compound fracture of the eg. Lack of Orders Reported at Sault Ste. Marie. ( A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie says: It is learned from a reliable source that the steel plant of the Algorha Steel Company will probably close next week because of lack of orders. The demand for steel is not as heavy in Canada as it iiruirexpected it would be. Whe- ther the recent deal in the Lake Superior Corporation has anything to do with the conditions at present was not learned. The move will throw 1,500 men out of employment. Ridgetown Man Pulled Trigger With a Rramrod. A despatch from Chatham says: Daniel Mowbray, who lives near Ridgetown, committed suicide on Monday morning. Mr. Mowbray, who lived with his sister, Mrs. Stewart, had suffered greatly dur- ing his life and lately had been very melancholy. Monday morning he took a muzzle-loading shotgun into the orchard and placed it under a cherry tree. He then placed his temple at the muzzle and used the ramrod to pull the trigger. The charge entered his head and caused instantaneous death. ENDED LIFE WITH SHOTGUN. Contagious Form of Cattle Disease pa!t,ssPaikiaA1t. l A despatch from Windsor says: Blackleg, a highly contagious form of cattle disease, has made its ap- pearance in Rochester Township, Essex County, and some fourteen or fifteen head among whom the dis- ease has already been discovered, will have to be slaughtered at once. {illukerosene at all. It was a com- bination of naphtha and gasoline, and had a flash point below fifty. Sample at Neepawa Made up of Naphtha and Gasoline, A despatch from Winnipeg says'. A sample of coal oil on sale at Nee- pawa was analyzed here on Mon- day_and found to contain absolutely Mrs. Tony Vex-rerun, of Hamilton, Killed by a Car. A despatch from Hamilton: says: In an attempt to save her dog from injury by a Radial car on Sunday evening about 5 o'clock Mrs. Tony Ververanan, Whitfield avenue, lost her own lite. She and her husband were walking along the tracks near Irondale, and hearing a car ap- proach, they stepped aside out of danger. The dog remained on the track, and as it was in danger of being struck, Mrs. Ververanan ran on the track to save it. As she bent forward to pick it up the corner of the car struck her on the head knocking her senseless. The car was stopped, and she was taken to the City Hospital, where the doctors operated on her. Her skull was too badly fractured for surgi- cal aid to be of any benefit, and she died about an hour later. Berlin Students Work Hard to Save New Buildings. A despatch from Berlin says: Fire did $35,000 damage to St. Je- rome's College early on Sunday morning, destroying the oldest of the college buildings, which was used as a notiviate chapel, dormi- tory and society hall. Several bil- liard tables, a piano, an organ and other valuable furniture were de- stroyed, as well as practically all the clothing of 12 students who slept there. The volunteer brigade of students had streams playing on the flames before the arrival of the city 6 ADULTERATED COAL OIL. brigade STEEL WORKS MAY CLOSE ST. JEROME’S DAMAGED. BLACKLEG IN ESSEX. TIER LIFE FOR A DOG. MEWS WEN INGREASM Attempt on the Lives of Englishmen Almost of Daily Occurrence. y, A despatch from Calcutta says: The situation in India. has not shown such a menace of serious. up- risings as it does to-day for many years past. Attacks and attempts on the lives of Englishmen, officials and civilians are of almost daily oc- currence. Lord Minto, the Vice- roy of India, returned here on Wed- nesday from the north, cutting short his excursion in this territory for the purpose of considering mea- sures to cope with the native dis- affection, which the authorities have been forced to recognize as alarm- ingly on the increase. -- ._. Coasting Steamer Went Down off the Philippines. A despatch from Manila says: The "casting steamer Ponting, car-i rying a large number of laborers‘ from Narvaian to the ricehelds in Pangasinan province, struck a Jock) and sank on Thursday night during) a storm, off the town of San Fern nando, in Union province. It isi estimated that a hundred of the passengers and crew of the Pont-, ing were drowned. The steamer Yaw-aye» rescueiy'u'u. -s1, 'pitru‘i tt' iconstabulary, which was established immediately after the accident, picked up fifteen bodies, and many were coming ashore. It is not known whether any Americans or Europeans were aboard the wreck- ed steamer. Young Montreal Man Burned in Clothes-Cleaning Shop. A despatch from Montreal says: A young man named Lagamiere was burned to death on Friday after- noon as a result of an explosion of gasoline. He was engaged in cleaning a, suit of clothes in a tailor shop on Berthelet street, when the gasoline he was using became Unit- ed, and in a second the flre caught in the big tank of gasoline, which exploded. The building was wreck- ed, and Lagamiere was badly in- jur d by the explosion. Before the firemen could arrive the building was a mass of flames, and the young man's escape was out off, After the flames were subdued his charred body was found in the ruins. Laga- miere was twenty years of age. On Wednesday night a Bengali made an unsuccessful attempt to kill Public Prosecutor Hume with a bomb in a railroad carriage, near Tailor Instructor Has Been Susi Pending Investigation. A'despatch from Kingston says: The tailor instructor of the peni- tentiary is under suspicion pending an investigation into the finding in cne of his rooms in the institution; a quantity of opium, i'Ciiirdr,l,, money and two watches purchased) at Eaton's in Toronto. The. Bus-i pended official denies all knowledge" as to how these materials found: their' way into his department. The discovery was made by the prison authorjti.es that opiumpnd tobacco were .bting uged, and-a prisoner gave information as to where the Were Working in Salt Mine on Out- skirts of Detroit. A despatch from Detroit says: Six men were suffocated to death on Saturday afternoon in the Iril- lage of Oakwood, on the western outskirts of Detroit. They were at work 500 feet down in a shaft be-. ing sunk for a salt mine, when the canvas tube which supplied them with air became clogged, and the shaft filled with gas. Four bodies have been recovered. A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says: Twenty-five bodies, all but two of them horribly mutilated, and several dismembered, were taken on Sunday from the mine of the Pitts- burg-Buffalo Coal Co., at Marian- na, where an explosion occurred on Saturday. (Mieials of the company who said on Saturday night that over 125 had been killed, on Sun- day night admit that 138 men went down the shaft to work on Satur- day morning. According to min- ers and others familiar with the number of men generally employ- ed in the mine, the death list will exceed the company's estimate by at least 50. mm Ill THE ?lllii'flllif xplosion in Pitts'ourg-Bufia1o Coal Mine. MAN BURNED TO DEATH. A HUNDRED DROWNED. SIX MEN S UFFO CATED . 138 MINERS DEAD . Agurpara. There were three other Europeans in the carriage at the same time. None was injured. Last Monday night District Supt. of Po. lice Clough was murdered by a na- tive at Lyallpur. The native ap- proached the superinLcndent ' . he was asleep and cut 9;, head with a, spade. - A despatch from deonton says :' Captain N. F. Ha )bottle, the de- faulting collector ofrinleusd revenue here, who was serving a, two-year sentence, died suddenly in the peril-j tentiaty on Fvidayvnprnir1ss from cancer of the ston ach. He had been operated uponiand never ral- lied. A-zptstst?ftaiip sud feature-oi "the case was the fact that one hour after his death a pardon arrived Hrorn Ottawa, which had been granted by order in Council after ltheprecarious condition of his (health was made known to the Gov- lernment. Capt. Harbottle leaves la wife and four childlan. The native, named Chow who on November 7 made . fompe here upon the life of Sir An- drew Henderson Fraser, the Lieut... Governor of Bengal, on Wednesday pleaded g-uilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. 241 Employee Victims of Accident: During October. A despatch from Ottawa says'. Industrial accidents occurring to 241 individual work people in Ca- nada during the month of October, 1908, were reported to the Depart- ment of Labor. Of these, 79 were fatal and 162 resulted in serious injuries. In addition, two fatal ac- cidents were reported as having taken place prior to the beginning, of the month, information not hav- ing been received by the depart- ment before October, 1908. The number of fatal accidents reported in October, 1908, was 23 less than in the previous month and 61 less than in October, 1907. The 11um- ber of non-fatal accidents reported in October, 1908, was eight more than in the preceding month and 144 less than in October, 1907. The police are taking remark- able precautions to safeguard Lord Minto, and this is regarded as most signifieant. Death of Capt. N. F. Harbottle From Cahcer. material was county; prisoners under the 'i using the drug, and x now in the prison the stuff got into the' one can tell. Som large quantity of sto found under the flo tect’g room at the knew nothing ab Some prisoners wer hiding the stuff, a. doubt the present of convict sleight-of- spector Dawson will Mrs. Gowdy and Granddatrghted Seriously Injured. A despatch from Welland says: On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Wil- liam Gowdy of Buffalo, accornpanic ed by her grandadughter, N . Hatt, six years old, wet by a Grand Trunk frie backing on them at the Both received serious ini doctors are in attenda hoped the injuries may fatal. The crossing is v ous, and many narrow e. New British Measure Buried by 272 to " Votes. A despatch from London says: The House of Lords on Friday re- jected, in accordance with their re-l solution of Nov. 24, the Govern- ment's Licensing Bill at the second reading by 272 to 96 votes. Ptt Liberal party has for the past two months regarded this as the inevit- able fate of the bill. They will, however, during the next general election campaign, use this as one of their many reasons for ending the House of Lords. They set forth, furthermore, that the bill, being a revenue measure, is outside the jurisdiction of the House of Lords. occurred. LICENSING BILL REJE CTED PARDON CAME TOO LATE. 70 RESULTED FATALLY. RUN DOWN BY TRAIN.